WEBVTT IS WHAT WE HAVE TO DO TOGIVE LOCAL CONTROL BACK TO SMALLGOVERNMENT.THE NEW PROPOSEDBIL HASABSOLUTELY NOTHING THAT WE CANBARGAIN ABOUT.MARK: HE REPRESENTS OVER 40,000PUBLIC WORKERS IN IOWA.HE SAYS THE ONLY COLLECTIVEBARGAINING THIS BILL WOULD LEAVEBEHIND IS THE COLLECTIVEINFLUENCE OF WORKERS AND THEIRFAMILIES AND SUPPORTERS.WECAN TO MAKE SURE THAT INTHE NEXT ELECTION THOSE FOLKSWHO TOOK PART IN VOTING THISTERRIBLE, TERRIBLE BILL INTOOFFICE DID NOT RETURN TO OFFICE.MARK: HOMAN AND OTHERS AT THECAPITOL TALK AS IF THE LAW ISALREADY ON THE BOOKS.>> BY THE END OF THE WEEK ITTECHNICALLY COULD BE ON THEGOVERNOR'S DESK AND IT'S ALLOVER.MARK: SENATOR DAVID JOHNSON, WHOLEFT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PROTEST OVER DONALD TRUMP, SAYSPEOPLE DON'T REALIZE HOW FASTTHIS BILL IS MOVING.>> WHAT THE REPUBLICANS AREDOING HERE IS TEARING DOWN ITWO WEEKS, JUST TWO WEEKS WHATIT TOOK TWO YEARS TO BUILD BACKIN THE EARLY 1970'S.MARK: HOUSE DEMOCRATS POINTEDOUT THE GROUNDSWELL OF PEOPLESPEAKING OUT AGAINST THE LABORBILL AT FORUMS, TOWN HALLMEETINGS, AND PUBLIC HEARINGSLIKE THIS ONE IN ANKENY.MEANWHILE REPRESENTATIVE DAVEDEYOE, WHO INTRODUCED THE HOUSEBILL, SAYS THIS BILL IS NOBEING FAST TRACKED.HE SAYS HE'S HEARD FROM A LOT OFIOWANS WHO SUPPORT THE BILL BUTWHO AREN'T OPENLY SAYING THATBECAUSE IT'S SUCH AN UNPOPULARSTANCE.>> THE LOUDEST VOICES ARE THONES THAT PEOPLE THE ATTENTIONTO A LOT OF TIMES.

More than 1,000 people are trying to jam into a public comment hearing at the Iowa Statehouse Monday to speak out on the proposed collective bargaining bill.

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The bill is designed to limit what public employees can negotiate for in the contracts.

Officials told KCCI that over 900 people had signed up to speak at the hearing and that all but 16 indicated that they are against the bill.

“The new proposed bill has absolutely nothing we can bargain about,” said Danny Homan, of AFSCME Iowa Council 61.

Homan represents over 40,000 public workers in Iowa. He said the only collective bargaining this bill would leave behind is the collective power of workers and their families and supporters.

"…We're going to make sure we do everything we can to ensure that in the next election, those folks who took part in voting this terrible, terrible bill into (law) don't return to office,” Homan said.

Homan and others at the Capitol talk as if the law is already on the books.

"By the end of the week it technically could be on the governor's desk, and (then) it's all over," Senator David Johnson said.

Johnson, who left the Republican Party in protest of President Donald Trump, said people do not realize how fast the labor bill is moving.

“What the Republicans are doing here is tearing down in two weeks, in two weeks, what it took two years to build back in the early 1970's,” Johnson said.

House Democrats have pointed out the groundswell of people speaking out against the labor bill at forums, town hall meetings and public hearings.

Representative Dave Deyoe, who introduced the House bill, said the bill is not being fast-tracked. Deyoe said he has heard from a lot of Iowans who support the bill, but who aren't openly saying that because it is such an unpopular stance.

“The loudest voices are the ones people pay attention to a lot of times, and there are an awful lot of folks who are quietly telling us they like the bill and we really need to do this,” Deyoe said.

Republicans already have enough votes to pass the bill, so many feel Monday’s public comment is just a chance to blow off a lot of collective steam.

Deyoe said they will likely debate the labor bill Tuesday. He said that he expects multiple days of debate in the House, meaning there could be at least two days before the bill comes to a vote.